sand
/sænd/ noun B1- Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
- A specific grade, type, or composition of sand.
- A beach or other mass of sand. · The Canadian tar sands are a promising source of oil.
- Personal courage.
- A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
- A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass). · Cf. sands of time (idiom)
- Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
Plural sands
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“‘L’homme c’est rien—l’œuvre c’est tout,’ as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand.”
And White Sands is a pretty name, too; but I don’t like it as well as Avonlea.
How far is it to White Sands?”
Here is the sea, here is the sand,
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